Alternate Title

NYS 1980

Summary

Youth data for the fifth wave of the National Youth Survey
are contained in this collection. The first wave of this survey was
conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375), the second wave in 1977 (ICPSR 8424),
the third wave in 1978 (ICPSR 8506), and the fourth wave in 1979 (ICPSR
8917). For this wave, youths in the United States were interviewed in
early 1981 about events and behavior occurring in calendar year 1980.
Data are available on the demographic and socioeconomic status of
respondents, disruptive events in the home, neighborhood problems,
youth aspirations and current successes, normlessness, labeling by
parents, friends, and co-workers, perceived disapproval, attitudes
toward deviance, exposure and commitment to delinquent peers, sex
roles, interpersonal violence, attitudes toward sexual violence,
pressure for substance abuse by peers, drug and alcohol use, and
victimization.

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

Users are reminded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not for the investigation of specific individuals or treatment facilities.

Universe

Unit(s) of Observation

Data Source

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1989-05-04

Version Date

2008-09-10

Version History

2008-09-10 New files were added. These files included one or more of the following: Stata setup, SAS transport (CPORT), SPSS system, Stata system, SAS supplemental syntax, and Stata supplemental syntax files, and a tab-delimited ASCII data file. Some other minor edits were made to improve the data and documentation.

1989-05-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.